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Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger

McLuhan was described as "the greatest put-on artist of all time" and even asthe greatest intellectual pioneer since Freud. His work underlies any seriousdiscussion of the effects of the media on our lives.

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A straightforward biography by one of McLuhan's former students. I knew nothing of McLuhan the person before reading this. A charitable view would be that he was charmingly eccentric.Read full review

Marshall McLuhan: the medium and the messenger

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Almost 10 years after his death and 25 years after the publication of his Understanding Media ( LJ 6/1/64) , there is still much curiosity about McLuhan and his theories. These two books, different as ...Read full review

About the author (1990)

Philip Marchand was the book columnist for the "Toronto Star" for eighteen years, before retiring to write books in 2008. He is the author of "Just Looking, Thank You", a collection of magazine journalism (Macmillan, 1976); "Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger" (Random House of Canada, 1989); "Deadly Spirits", a crime novel (Stoddart, 1994); "Ripostes", a collection of literary criticism (Porcupine's Quill, 1998); and most recently "Ghost Empire: How the French Almost Conquered North America" (McClelland & Stewart, 2005). His revised edition of "Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger" has been reissued by Random House of Canada and MIT Press in the United States.